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Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. By 2007 Metro Detroit, if defined as Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, and Washtenaw counties, had the United States's largest Arab American population, larger than that of Greater Los Angeles if that region was defined as Los Angeles, Orange, and Ventura counties.
That year, Wayne County had 77,207 Latinos, the largest number of Latinos in any Michigan county, with 61% of them living in Detroit. Of the Latinos, 53,538 were Mexican, 9,036 were Puerto Rican, and 1,595 were Cuban. In Michigan Wayne County has the highest numbers of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans.
Abraham, Nabeel, and Andrew Shryock, eds. Arab Detroit: From Margin to Mainstream (Wayne State UP, 2000). Ameri, Anan, and Holly Arida. Daily Life of Arab Americans in the 21st Century (Greenwood, 2012). Alsultany, Evelyn. Arabs and Muslims in the Media: Race and Representation after 9/11 (New York University Press, 2012).
History. The first mosque in the city was the Highland Park Mosque, and the first imams who lived in Detroit were Kalil Bazzy and Hussein Adeeb Karoub. This first mosque failed in 1922. A multiethnic coalition founded the Universal Islamic Society (UIS), the city's second mosque, in 1925. [1] Early Muslim communities in Detroit "navigated ...
Civil rights advocates are concerned there will be a renewal of war on terrorism tactics that have targeted their communities. Even before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Arab Americans were racially ...
It is the same for Metro Detroit's Arab American community which has been watching what has been happening 6,000 miles away with worry. "It's extremely tense right now - we have family and friends ...
The Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee typically holds its annual convention in Washington D.C. This year, it needed to be in Dearborn. ‘We are not OK:’ Arab Americans, feeling ...
13624 Michigan Ave. Dearborn, MI 48126. Coordinates. 42°19′20″N 83°10′36″W / 42.322147°N 83.176603°W / 42.322147; -83.176603. Director. Diana Abouali. Website. www.arabamericanmuseum.org. The Arab American National Museum (AANM, Arabic: المتحف الوطني العربي الأمريكي) is a museum in Dearborn ...